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European monetary history prior to 1950 presents many attempts at international monetary coordination, but none were as bold and as far reaching as the European Monetary Union envisioned in the Delors Report of 1989 and enacted through the 1991 Treaty on the European Union in Maastricht. This...
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This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has … regulatory costs for Australia and its major trading partners. The modelling work shows that, under current market conditions …, the introduction of GM technology into the non-wheat grains and oilseeds sectors will have minimum impact on Australia …
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international competition from EU, Japan, and later from China and the other emerging economies had played a pivotal role in the …
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This article draws mostly (but not entirely) on new institutional economics to consider the likely behaviours of non-government conservation organizations and the implications of these behaviours for biodiversity conservation. It considers how institutional factors may result in behaviour of...
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development and wellbeing in Europe, the United States and Canada. We calculate a compound index of several indicators based on …, the United States, Austria, Ireland, Switzerland, Canada, Finland, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The three groups …
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We compare Europe with the USA and Canada as regards business cycle synchronization and core-periphery patterns. A long …
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Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour...
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We compare Europe with the USA and Canada as regards business cycle synchronization and core-periphery patterns. A long …
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